Coffeebreak Cartography #6 – Quick mapping for a new campaign

I just started GMing a new game this week, using the Alternity rules and based in the world of Elite/Frontier First Encounters.

For some fun reading check out the campaign in-game news blog: http://frontier.whrpg.com.

The adventure has started with a prison break, the federal prision facility in the Ross128 system to be precise. So first off I sketched a quick outline in my big notepad of maps.

Pencil sketch of Ross128 map

Evidence that I just can’t draw without a computer! So then it was into flash and illustrator and 20mins with my quick Modern Mapping technique and I was ready for the session.

Ross128 Modern Map. Click for bigger!

So now my players are spending the rest of the week working out a plan of escape. They have two rather nasty bio-grenades and enough explosives for 2, maybe 3 door locks, or one wall.

How would you escape? Let me know in the comments.

Since the dark days of the late '70s, Iain has been playing and running RPGs of one type or another. When not with his wife and children or working as a software engineer/Photoshop monkey he spends spare time either shooting pointy sticks at pointless paper targets, practising the art of card magic, or spending time enjoying the varied worlds of role playing.

Tags: Cartography, Hand-drawn, Sci Fi